Thursday, November 30, 2006

Perez Hilton

...Okay, this just came out: Perez Hilton has finally stolen (and made a ton of money off of) enough pictures from other blogs, and x17 Online is suing his ass - for over 7.5 million dollars. Now, you know that my blog consists of pictures and info that I get from other blogs, but the difference between Perez and other bloggers is that we credit the other blogs for pictures (the source thing at the bottom of each blog); he does not. He's been making a shit ton of money off of taking photos from paparazzi websites like X17, and now they are trying to take some of it back. Good luck! (FADED YOUTH)

3 comments:

Basing your business plan around illegal activities, then gaining traffic, members and attention based on those illegal actions until someone offers you money to take over your userbase and then going "legit" is how the internet works.

Napster's entire business model was built around content they didn't own, until they had so many users and eyeballs that someone bought them for enormous sums of money and they suddenly went "legit". Same with a lot of other businesses (youtube, for example) in the last ten years.

It's like a car dealer starting out by going down the street to steal cars from a competitor and then selling those cars as his own, until he has amassed enough word of mouth and bankroll from that to finally go legit and buy his own cars and stock his own inventory for his own dealership.

About Me

Specifics about dog portraits:
In order to capture the dog, I use many different mediums to get the personality just right; although the majority of the painting is done with acrylic paint, I also use chalk, ink, gesso, and anything else I can get my hands on to make the picture look as realistic as possible!
The process typically takes anywhere from 2 to 3 weeks, and the dog portraits are painted on quality canvas - the size that usually works best is 12in.x16in. The edges are painted the same color as the background so your painting is ready to hang when you get it!
The price for a painting is $350, and that also depends on the size of the painting and the number of dogs being painted.
If you'd like to get ahold of me, please feel free to shoot me an email at sarahxdylan@gmail.com. Thanks!